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NEW ENGLAND FARIVrER. 



March 



Then the draft is positively increased, and the load 

 liable to injury. 



— Better pay a car|)enter for making flights of 

 stairs in the barn, where needed, than a doctor for 

 mending bones broken liy using ladders. Rule : 

 things in daily use sliuuld be exactly adapted to 

 the need. 



AGRICULTURAIi ITEMS. 



— For pin wonns in horses the usual remedy is 

 to give aloes in the form of a ball. An injection of 

 a weak solution of carbolic acid is resorted to quite 

 often of late. 



— A fatal disease called "the black-leg" is prev- 

 alent an-iong cattle in Boone county, Iowa. The 

 flesh becomes dark, the blood almost black in the 

 veins, and the heart lull of coagulated blood, when 

 death ensues. 



— The decrease in cultivated acres of wheat in 

 Great Briiain, acroiding to the returns of 1870, is 

 5.3 per cent. Barley shows an increase of 5 2 per 

 cent; cattle have increased 15 per cent., and sheep 

 have decreased 4 40 per cent. 



— A correspondent of the Southern Cultivator' 

 says that oxen may be rid of lice, by giving them 

 two tablespoonsful of sulphur mixed with salt, in 

 the morning of a -warm day, and then \\'ork them 

 hard enough to keep them hot. By night all lice 

 will be gone. 



— A veterinarian correspondent of the Western 

 Farmer, says that very tight warm horse stables 

 are just the things for horse doctors, as they give 

 them lots of busmess, and that the open bams of 

 this Western country are the greatest enemies the 

 veterinary practitioner has to contend with, for 

 they continually rob him of his practice. 



— Mr. S. C. Mason writes to the New England 

 Farmer that he has kept large herds of cattle, and 

 has been troubled with a disease known as foot rot, 

 which he has cured by putting air-slacked lime on 

 the floor of stables, drive-ways to the bam, &c. 

 The disoi-derto which he alludes is probably some- 

 thing different from the Epizootic Aphtha, but the 

 use of lime is recommended in case of the latter 

 disease. 



— The Norristown, Pa., Herald furnishes the 

 following remedy for chicken cholera:— One ounce 

 of assafuj'ida; two table spoonfuls of cayenne 

 pepper, pulverized; one peck wheat bran; one 

 handful salt. Dissolve the assatceuda in a cup ot 

 hot water; mix it all together like thick nmsh; 

 prepare the night before; put it in the trough 

 every morning if bad, and continue until a final 

 cure. 



—X. A. Willard gives it as his opinion that hun- 

 dreds of thousands of pounds of cheese have been 

 lost during the past summer by the lack of atten- 

 tion to the temperature of curing rooms. He be- 

 lieves progress had been made during the past few 

 years in this department, but much remains to be 



accomplished, and the principal improvement must 

 lie in securing a proper and uniform temperature 

 of the cheese while curing. 



AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



Cat-eponia Colnty, Vt. — The annual meeting of the 

 Caledonia County Agricultural Society, was held at St. 

 Johnsbury, Vt., January 17th, Harley M. Hall, Presi- 

 dent, in the chair. The following oflicers were elected 

 for the year ensuing : 



President, Chas. A. Sylvester, of Barnet; Vice Presi- 

 f?e?^^■>^ Calvin Morrill, St. Jolin.sbury; Joshua Bemis, 

 Lyndon; SecTetaries, I. W.Sanborn, I^yndonville ; H. 

 C. Hastings, N. M. Johnson, St. Johnsbury; Chas. D. 

 Brainard, Danville; Treasurer, C. M. Stone, St. Johns- 

 bury, together with an Executive Committee, consisting 

 of one or more members from each town in the county. 

 The meeting was fully attended. The last Annual Fair, 

 1870, was one of the Society's best, and a success finan- 

 cially and otherwise. 



Addison County, Vt. — Annual meeting at Middle- 

 bury, Jan. 18. Oflicers elected for 1871 ■—Prea., Col. E. 

 S. Stowell, of .Cornwall; Vice Pres., A. C. Harris, 

 Shoreham; N. J. Allen, Ferrisburgh; Sec, Albert 

 Chapman, Middlebury ; Treas., N. P. Barbour, Middle- 

 bur3-. Also a Board of Town Managers. Itesolutions 

 of respect to the memory of Edwin Hammond, one of 

 the founders and best friends of the Society were 

 adopted. 



Waterville, Me., Jersey Ceub. — Pr€S.,TS. R. Bou- 

 telle: <sVc., William Dyer. * 



AxDKOscoGGiN County. — Pres., Rufus Prince; Sec, 

 Nelson Horn. The next fair to be held in any town the 

 trustees may designate. 



West Penobscot, Me. — Prc.«., Stephen D. Jennings; 

 Sec, T. P. Batohelder, Kenduskeag. 



Sagadahoc, Me.— Pres., W. P. Walker; Sec, G. A. 

 Rogers, Topsham. 



lioRTiciLTUEAL PATENTS. — The Kansas Fariner, 

 in noticing the petitions that have been circulated 

 for signatures, asking Congi-ess to include new 

 vegetables, plants, roots, woods, &c., among the 

 objects for patent rights, makes a practical test of 

 the matter by anticipating the sort of notices, warn- 

 ings and prohibitions which would be issued under 

 the proposed enactment : 



Know all Men by these Presents, that we, The 

 Kansas Fm^ier, have had granted unto us by the 

 Patent Oflice of these United "States ic^rr.s jPofe»U, 

 for the term of twenty-eight years, upon a Red Onion, 

 discovered, invented, propagated, grown, &c., by us, 

 and all persons are forbidden, under the pains and 

 peiutlties of the law, from buying, raising, or using, 

 said Red Onion, unless obtained from us or our legally 

 authorized agent. 



[Signed] IvANS.VS FARMER. 



BEEKEEPING MATTERS. 

 The New York Tribune gives the following 

 as the substance of what Mrs. A. Tiipper said 

 in reply to questions which were put to her at 

 a late beekeejjers' convention at Des Moines, 

 Iowa : — 



Bee-keeping is peculiarly adapted to wo- 

 man, as she will give more attention to very 

 essential details than man. Italian (jueens im- 

 prove in this country. The test of an Italian 

 queen is the peculiar mark iiuparted to her 

 brood. Italian I)ees are the most industrious 

 workers, starting in the morning an hour ear- 

 lier than the black bee ; they will make one- 

 tliird nnn-e trips in a day tlian black bees, 

 lleart's-ease or smartweed alTorded the best 



